Redefining Mainland China

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This paper argues that the government currently in Taiwan is the proper and original government of China and therefore Taiwan, and not continental China, should be labeled the "mainland" for it is the first true China.

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"In February of 1912 the Republic of China was formed, prior to 1912 China had been run by a series of dynasties, this was the first time China had been united under a centralized government. The Republic of China underwent a series of changes in the following decades that led to the nationalist government that was in power in 1949. Led by Chiang Kai-shek the Nationalist government of China in 1949 became engulfed in a brutal civil war with the communists led by Mao Zedong. The communists quickly defeated Chiang and the Nationalist forces and forced them to retreat to the island of Taiwan, where Chiang proclaimed Tapei, Taiwan the temporary capital of China".

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